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The Paradox That’s Supercharging Climate Change
No good deed goes unpunished—and that includes trying to slow climate change. By cutting greenhouse gas emissions, humanity will spew out fewer planet-cooling aerosols—small…
It Takes Guts to Fix Wind Turbines for a Living
Maybe you think they’re majestic. Maybe you think they’re an eyesore. No matter how you feel about wind turbines, there’ll be a lot more of them in coming years. And someone…
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part of a study testing a wireless device designed to produce rudimentary vision in blind…
The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
“How are matter and energy distributed?” asked Peter Schweitzer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut. “We don’t know.”Schweitzer has spent most of his…
Toronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods—With a Rain Tax
This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A plan to charge Toronto homeowners and businesses for paved surfaces…
Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit
The Victus Haze mission is more complicated than Victus Nox, involving two prime contractors, two spacecraft, and two rocket launches from different spaceports, all timed to…
Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?
Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself. Take, for example, a human running on top of a moving train. For starters, you…
Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways
As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the past decade, which decimated the pig…
This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born
Walk me through your own decision to do this—to use Orchid’s technology on yourself.I mean, I started the company because I wanted to test my own embryos.Because of your mom, or…
Mexico City’s Metro System Is Sinking Fast. Yours Could Be Next
Solano‐Rojas and his colleagues found subsidence in the area of an overpass near the Olivos station, which collapsed in 2021 while a Metro train was traveling over it. “We did…